NEWS !! New Conroe Info

[BitpowerPM]

Someone in a chinese forum postet that new Roadmap:



Conroe :

[Shadowmage]

2.66GHz starting frequency, very impressive.

Note the ditching of SMP (aka HT)

[Who]

Only 2mb shared? I was expecting 4 and 8 for XE.

[vapb400]

great.....more chipsets.

So will i975x support Conroe or not!?

[nn_step]

SO when Is Intel going to do something intelligent and Make One CHIPSET that WILL beable to use ALL 775 CPUs?

[NiCKE^]

i985X what the heck! I won't got Conroe XE for sure!

[P_1]

i985X what the heck! I won't got Conroe XE for sure!

Im thinking that conroe XE will be quad core from seeing how it lacks HT.

[AkXb70]

im sorry, but i wouldnt trust a roadmap that gets preslers cache size completely wrong...maybe its a bit old and out of date?

it says 2X1, but we know its 2X2

[Pinnacle]

Sucks no HT.

[AkXb70]

Sucks no HT.

read my post

[Cybercat]

efficient Pentium M-derived architecture at the same insane clockspeeds as Netburst?


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[HKPolice]

Too bad they're still using the aging Netburst architecture for the northbridge.... 1333Mhz = 10.6GB/s max theoretical bandwidth between the CPU and chipset. Actual throughput will probably be more like 8GB/s.

Out of that 8GB/s, about 4GB/s is used for PCIe communications in a SLI setup, which leaves a meager 4GB/s for memory bandwidth. Dual channel DDR2 will be able to provide 10.8GB/s of bandwidth EASILY, with 2xPC5400 Micron D9 sticks at 3-2-2 timings.

The only hope is that if one is able to overclock the FSB from 1333Mhz to 2Ghz, which would boost bandwidth from 10.6GB/s to 16GB/s. I highly doubt the northbridge will be able to do that though. There's just too many connections going to it: The CPU, PCIe, memory, AND southbridge.

[grimREEFER]

the conroe xe at stock is equal to an amd x2 @ about 3.6ghz lol
thats total pwnage
but the cache should be 2mb on all models as someone said before, so dont get ur hopes up for those clock speeds.

[grimREEFER]

Too bad they're still using the aging Netburst architecture for the northbridge.... 1333Mhz = 10.6GB/s max theoretical bandwidth between the CPU and chipset. Actual throughput will probably be more like 8GB/s.

Out of that 8GB/s, about 4GB/s is used for PCIe communications in a SLI setup, which leaves a meager 4GB/s for memory bandwidth. Dual channel DDR2 will be able to provide 10.8GB/s of bandwidth EASILY, with 2xPC5400 Micron D9 sticks at 3-2-2 timings.

The only hope is that if one is able to overclock the FSB from 1333Mhz to 2Ghz, which would boost bandwidth from 10.6GB/s to 16GB/s. I highly doubt the northbridge will be able to do that though. There's just too many connections going to it: The CPU, PCIe, memory, AND southbridge.

northbridge isnt used for pci express communications....and there is no sli on intel setups(lol, unless u use the crappy nvidia chipsets which are totally gay)

[AkXb70]

the conroe xe at stock is equal to an amd x2 @ about 3.6ghz lol
thats total pwnage
but the cache should be 2mb on all models as someone said before, so dont get ur hopes up for those clock speeds.

i dont know why you would say that...conroe has yet to be benched. performance can only be guessed atm

[Cybercat]

northbridge isnt used for pci express communications....and there is no sli on intel setups(lol, unless u use the crappy nvidia chipsets which are totally gay)

wow, you're so knowledgeable!

[HKPolice]

northbridge isnt used for pci express communications....and there is no sli on intel setups(lol, unless u use the crappy nvidia chipsets which are totally gay)

HAHAAHAHAHA

Please die.

[ingentingmendeg]

*drools over conroe XE* 4MB L2 Cache!!! holy mother

[nn_step]

northbridge isnt used for pci express communications....and there is no sli on intel setups(lol, unless u use the crappy nvidia chipsets which are totally gay)

Please let Evolution kill you

[AkXb70]

*drools over conroe XE* 4MB L2 Cache!!! holy mother

all conroe's were supposed to be 4MB L2 (with some 2MB units thrown in)...which is another reason i question this...

[Pinnacle]

read my post

no

[AkXb70]

no

smart....


EDIT: actually though, initial P8 chips werent supposed to have HT, although ALL later iterations will (aka MMX)

[3NZ0]

northbridge isnt used for pci express communications....and there is no sli on intel setups(lol, unless u use the crappy nvidia chipsets which are totally gay)

erm.....

[[XC] leviathan18]

really impresive lets see benchmark to see if they are clock for clock faster than AMD A64

[AkXb70]

really impresive lets see benchmark to see if they are clock for clock faster than AMD A64

thatl probably be a few months down the road...although my guess is theyll be at least as fast as yonah (due to the very small increase in pipeline length and the tweaked execution engine)

my hopes though are for something thatl smash yonah clock for clock (but..thats hopes...)